TNoob: there is a board on this forum, the Help Wanted (not for support) board, for this purpose, it can be used if you wish: you can post there a request for professional paid or free help (outside the scope of the free support of this forum).You may want to note that the board is there only as convenience for people to advertise their services and/or use paid/free services. Simple Machines does not have control on the offers/services exchanged there.

You can use the "split_sql.py" utility, provided with the program, to split the large SQL files into smaller ones which can be imported one-by-one.

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Close to zero, I'm guessing, simply because I don't really have the time to develop a new converter, particularly when the existing converters can be chained onto a MyBB conversion to achieve the desired effect.

I apologize if this causes any inconvenience, but there are no plans to develop MyBB converters right now.

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Close to zero, I'm guessing, simply because I don't really have the time to develop a new converter, particularly when the existing converters can be chained onto a MyBB conversion to achieve the desired effect.

I apologize if this causes any inconvenience, but there are no plans to develop MyBB converters right now.

That's fine. I've been getting around that without a problem mainly by converting to MyBB (and the other guys) via. phpBB 2. I think it would be cool, personally, because the MyBB Merge System is an excellent platform to convert to.

Actually, the reason why most converters have a phpBB2 backend is because it can be converted to nearly every other platform in existence. Not having to worry about multitudes of other platforms reduces my maintenance workload significantly.

I still would like to, at some point, have pluggable front- and back-ends, so I don't have to deal with so many single-use converters. But for now, that's only a pipe dream.

Of course, if anyone is willing to take up the challenge and write such a framework, I'd be very happy

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I believe that Forumotion allows you to switch your skin style to phpBB3 at any time through the Display>Theme>Version admin page. Then you can run the existing phpBB3 converter.

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a friend of mine wants to do this but is really worried that invisionfree will get pissed off or sue her or something if she does. That's not possible is it? I mean it's just running a spider operation which is legal as far as I know but I want to tell her something to put her mind at ease.

Question - Converter worked excellently for Zetaboards, but I have a question, now that I have converted the board, when I go to track IP, it says all of the people are potentially in the same range. Any way to resolve this issue?

@Joey67500: The get_cookie script should have grabbed all the necessary credentials to view the forums, unless they aren't visible on the board index.

@Austin01: What converter are you using?

@bros: The converter isn't able to convert post IP addresses, so they are all converted as "0.0.0.0". I don't know what SMF uses to signify that the post has an unknown IP address; if you know, please tell me.

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